Esther Carpenter: (Mayflower Society & Mayflower Families... & Father's Probate Record).
Ester Carden: (Edgar Perley Mills).
Esther Carpenter (Bardeen or Hardeen): (See MA Marriages).
Esther (Bardeen/Barden): (Mayflower Families...).
Esther (Carpenter) (Bardeen) Bowen: (Mayflower Births & Deaths).
Esther (Bowen): (Little Compton Families, Vol. II, Pearce).

b. Abt 1718, probably in Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts. (Mayflower Families...).

Note: Among the records destroyed in a courthouse fire are the birth of Esther and the deaths of her brother Amos (predeceased their father) and their father, Jotham.


m. (1) 18 Oct 1735, Rehoboth, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Esther Carpenter married Nathan Bardeen. (MA Marriages).

Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850
Name: Esther Carpenter
Gender: Female
Spouse: Nathan Bardeen
Marriage Date: 18 Oct 1735
City: Rehoboth
County: Bristol
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0562559.


m. (2) 4 Jan 1737, Swansea, Bristol County, Massachusetts, Nathaniel Bowen. (MA Marriages).

Massachusetts Marriages, 1633-1850
Name: Esther Hardeen
Gender: Female
Spouse: Nathanel Bowen
Marriage Date: 4 Jan 1737
City: Swansea
County: Bristol
Source: Family History Library, Salt Lake City, UT, Film # 0022366 item 3 & 0903395 items 7-8.

10 Bowen Children: Peleg, Thomas, Anne, John, Reuben, James, Mary, Avis, Anne, & William.


d. 28 Oct 1794, Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island. (Mayflower Families...).

b. Obadiah Bowen Lot. aka Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #14, Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island. Plot: Read Farm, School House Road .

No headstone photo posted as of 3/24/2017.



Little Compton Families Vol. II, PEARCE:
20. " ix. Lydia, b. 29 Jul 1760; m. 25 July 1779 William Bowen, son of Nathaniel and Esther Bowen."


Society of Mayflower Descendants, in the Commonwealth of Virginia, Application for Membership:
b. prob Rehoboth, MA; ca 1718; MF 5:65, 145;
d. Warren, RI; 28 Oct 1794; MF 5:145;
m. (2) Swansea, MA; 4 Jan 1737; MF 5:65, 145;
married to
(2) Nathaniel Bowen;
(1) Nathan Bardeen;


Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Twenty One, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1620 Plymouth 1857,
p. 35:
"28 DESIRE MARTIN 4 (Mercy 3 Billington, Francis 2, John 1)
b. Rehoboth 20 March 1684/5; d. there 12 Sept. 1727.
She m. Rehoboth 10 July 1707 JOTHAM CARPENTER, b. Swansea 1 July 1682; bp. Dorchester 1 July 1683; d. prob. Rehoboth bef. 8 April 1760; son of Benjamin and Renew (Weeks) Carpenter. He m. (2) Swansea 6 June 1728 Isabel Sherman.
On 14 April 1760 her stepson Jotham Carpenter [Jr.] was appointed her guardian 'the widow Izabel, by old age and other difficulties, has become non compos mentis.' Identity of Izabel is unknown.
Jotham Carpenter died intestate. Distribution of his estate was made 17 April 1760 to his widow Isabel; eldest son Jotham Carpenter; son Hezekiah Carpenter; daughters Hannah, Renew, Desire and Esther.
[p. 36:]
By deed dated 29 Nov. 1760, recorded 16 Oct. 1761, Jabez Round and Renew his wife; Hezekiah Hix and Desire his wife, all of Rehoboth; with David Round and Hannah his wife of Tiverton RI; and Nathaniel Bowen and Esther his wife of Warren RI sold to their brother Jotham Carpenter their rights in the real estate of 'our honoured father, Jotham Carpenter, deceased.' Hezekiah Carpenter of Johnston RI.
Children (CARPENTER) all but Esther rec. Rehoboth: ...."



Mayflower Families Through Five Generations, Volume Twenty One, John Billington, General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1620 Plymouth 1857,
p. 112-113:
"125 ESTHER CARPENTER 5 (Desire Martin 4, Mercy 3 Billington, Francis 2, John 1)
b. prob. Rehoboth ca. 1718; d. Warren RI 28 Oct. 1794 aged 76 yrs.
She m. (1) Swansea 4 Jan. 1735 NATHAN BARDEEN, b. ca. 1709; d. Swansea 17 Nov. 1736 in his 28th yr.
She m. (2) Swansea 4 Jan. 1737 NATHANIEL BOWEN, b. Swansea 1 Jan. 1703/4; d. Warren RI 24 Dec. 1794 ages 91 yrs.; son of Thomas and Thankful (Mason) Bowen.
Nathaniel Bowen lived in that part of Swansea that became Warren RI in 1746.
There are numerous land transfers in Warren RI records from Nathaniel Bowen, with wife Esther sometimes signing, to his stepson Nathan Barden; to sons Thomas, John, James and William Bowen; to daus. Avis McMillion and Anna Bowen; and to granson Peleg Bowen, son of Peleg.
Nathaniel Bowen had 3 males over 16, one under 16, 2 females over 16 and 5 females under 16 in the 1774 census of Warren RI.
No probate record for Nathan Bardeen in Bristol Co. or Nathaniel Bowen in Warren RI.
Child (BARDEEN or BARDEN) b. Swansea:
i NATHAN 6 b. 23 Feb. 1736/7
Children (BOWEN) first 2 b. Swansea, rest b. Warren RI:
ii PELEG b. 26 Jan. 1738/9
iii THOMAS b. 21 Dec. 1743
iv ANNE b. 11 April 1749; d.y.
v JOHN b. 14 May 1751
vi REUBEN b. 24 Nov. 1753; prob. d.y.
vii JAMES b. 11 May 1755
viii MARY b. 12 Nov. 1757
ix AVIS b. 12 Dec. 1758
x WILLIAM b. 25 Sept. 1760
[p. 113:]
xi ANNE b. 2 June 1766"


Mayflower Births & Deaths, Vol. I: p. 111:
"Footnotes for John Billington:
REFERENCE LIST:
GENEALOGICAL ARTICLES PERTAINING TO BILLINGTON FAMILY RESEARCH
Mayflower Descendant (MD) (1899-1937)
15:247-253 - Washburn Notes: Will of John Washburn
Mayflower Quarterly (MQ) (1975-1990)
46:14-15 - Presidential Mayflower Connections (correction - MQ 46:197)
48:67-71 - Esther (Carpenter)(Bardeen) Bowen, An Elusive Billington Descendant
49:170-179 - The Martins of Swansea & The Martins of Rehoboth
50:21-30 - Judah Fuller6, The Bloomer's Daughter
50:71-76 - The Additional Children of Joseph & Mercy (Canedy) Williams & Their Migrations to
Western MA & Groton NY
50:180-187 - There were Three Hezekiahs, Not One, In the Round Family
51:196-198 - The Family of Jabez & Renew (Carpenter) Round, A John Billington Line
52:137-143 - Desire Billington and Her Grandfather Francis Billington's Estate
Miscellaneous
Mayflower Families In Progress: John Billington of the Mayflower and His Descendants for Five Generations (MFIP), pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants, 1988.
NEHGR 124:116 - Francis Billington of Lincolnshire
TG 3:228-248 - Some Descendants of Francis Billington of the Mayflower
* * * * * * * * * * *
**Now available: Mayflower Families Through Five Generations: John Billington of the Mayflower
(MF5G), pub. by General Society of Mayflower Descendants. 1991."


Mayflower Quarterly (MQ) (1975-1990)
"48:67-71 - Esther (Carpenter) (Bardeen) Bowen, An Elusive Billington Descendant"


Source: Abstracts of Bristol County, Massachusetts Probate Records, Vol. XVII, p. 271
"Ord. for & div. of est. of JOTHAM CARPENTER of Reho. btwn. his widow Isabel Carpenter & his chldn: Jotham Carpenter (oldest son), Hezekiah Carpenter (son), Hannah (dau.), Renew (dau.), Desire (dau.) & Esther (dau.), ord. dtd. 14 Apr 1760, div. dtd. 17 Apr. 1760. Comm. Samuel Goff, Daniel Bullock & Elihu Mason [17:150/1/2/3]."


By Edgar Perley Mills (excerpt):
"Rebecca Bowen's grandfather was Nathaniel Bowen and her grandmother was Ester Carden. He was born in Eng. in 1705 and came to Auburn NY sometime before 1740. Later he went to Rhode Island, where he died in 1745. Her father was William Bowen. He was born in Sept 25, 1760 in Warren, Bristol Co., MA and died in Feb 20, 1854 in Moravia, Cayuga Co., NY. On July 25, 1779 he married Lydia Pearce in Little Compton, Newport [Co.], RI. She was born about 1760 and died Aug 29, 1823 in NY.
She died Jan. 5, 1847 in Grand Rapids, MI according to family writings, but the Grand Rapids cemeteries have no record of her burial. A History of Grand Rapids lists her death as Rebecca Rice (Her second husband's name) on Feb. 5, 1849."



b. Obadiah Bowen Lot. aka Rhode Island Historical Cemetery Warren #14, Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island.
Plot: Read Farm, School House Road .
b. The Obadiah Bowen Lot, where Nathaniel and Esther, his parents, several siblings, and many children and grandchildren are buried, is some two hundred feet south of School House Road, Warren, where it intersects with Market Street. Nathaniel Bowen was given the land that included the already old cemetery on 7 May 1729 by his father Thomas Bowen, who described the property as follows:[19]
All that mesuage farm or Tenement Lying on both sides the highway where I now Dwell in Swansey aforsed Excepting and Reserving the burying place that is and was bounded out by My honoured father obadiah Bowen deceased lying in the old orchard on the south side…bounded North and way west on ye Country Road.
In a later deed this property was described as "a farm or tract of land of forty acres, part arable, part meadow, part pasture," with a dwelling house, outbuilding, and a small salt meadow."[20] In exchange for the gift, Nathaniel made a deed in 1729 allowing his father "the improvement of the House nad land whereon he now dwells for their living, During their natural lives."[21] Late in life Nathaniel Bowen transferred the land on which the cemetery is located to his son James, and James in turn left the land equally to his eleven children, who sold most of it to Thomas Handy in 1839.[22] The house of "T. Handy" across the road from the Obadiah Bowen cemetery is marked on the 1870 Beers map of Warren.[23] When Nathaniel was a boy, this land was in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, but in 1747 when the borders were redrawn, it became part of Warren, Rhode Island. Considerably northeast of the center of town, this area was much more rural than the center of Warren in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.
Their burial ground stands out from thousands of others in Rhode Island and Massachusetts for the six generations of a single family who rest within its walls.
[The New England Historical and Genealogy Register, April 2010, Volume 164, Whole Number 654, pages 121-134.]


Vital Record of Rhode Island, Warren Births, p.49:
"1-2 BOWEN Anne, of Nathaniel and Esther, April 11, 1749
1-23 BOWEN John, May 14, 1751.
1-44 BOWEN Reuben, Nov. 24, 1753.
1-25 BOWEN James, May 11, 1755.
1-32 BOWEN Mary, Nov. 12, 1757.
1-4 BOWEN Avis, Dec. 12, 1758.
1-55 BOWEN William, Sept. 25, 1760.
1-4 BOWEN Anne, June 2, 1766."



Parents: Jotham Carpenter & Desire Martin Carpenter.

10 Bowen Children: Peleg, Thomas, Anne, John, Reuben, James, Mary, Avis, Anne, & William.